Lectures at the MFA - "Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott" (Lecture)

Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs From Life magazine photojournalist to film director, Gordon Parks is one of the most celebrated artists of his time. The groundbreaking photographs in the exhibition “Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott” focus on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s, but also relate to Parks’s own fascinating life story. Find out what influenced Parks as he photographed the everyday lives of the residents in his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1950, and what he took away from the experience.